Includes: correspondence from Ralph Wigram [Counsellor, Foreign Office], enclosing some of the memoranda listed below, and also on subjects including Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Ambassador to Britain (4); a memorandum by Wigram on Hitler's justification for German rearmament, and quotes used in his speeches (4); Foreign Office memorandum on "The Character, Principles and Aims of the National Socialist Movement", summarizing the commentary by Alfred Rosenberg, official Nazi Party spokesman, on Hitler's 25 points for a Nazi political programme (October 1930); Foreign Office notes on recent German claims on the demilitarization of the Rhineland; Foreign Office memorandum on German claims for equality of status in disarmament (October 1932); copy of a despatch by Basil Newton [Counsellor, Berlin] on an attack by Hitler on all German Government policy, particularly foreign affairs and rearmament (October 1932); copy of a despatch by Sir Horace Rumbold [British Ambassador to Germany] on Hitler's assumption of absolute power as Chancellor, Nazi political propaganda as used by Hitler and Joseph Goebbels, Minister for Propaganda and Hitler's aims as stated in "Mein Kampf" (April 1933); translation of a German memorandum on the pact between France and the Soviet Union against German aggression, the resulting breakdown of the Locarno Treaty, Germany's claim over the Rhineland, proposals for non-aggression pacts with France, Belgium and Eastern Europe, and Germany's willingness to re-enter the League of Nations; copy of the German Peace Plan, given by von Ribbentrop, for the pacification of Europe and the future of the Rhineland; copy of a note by von Ribbentrop on the German occupation of the Rhineland; extracts from speeches and statements by German ministers on foreign policy, May 1934 - January 1936, including Hitler, Goebbels, Rudolf Hess, Constantin von Neurath [Minister for Foreign Affairs] and Air Chief Marshal Hermann Goering; Italian press cuttings from the Corriere della Sera and Giornale d'Italia (with translation) on the conquest of Abyssinia [later Ethiopia] and the British attitude to sanctions against Italy; translated extracts from "Mein Kampf"; copies of despatches by Sir Eric Phipps [British Ambassador to Germany] on the German attitude to British suspicions, particularly those of WSC, and Germany's hopes for regaining former colonies; copy of despatch by Donald Gainer, British Consul-General [for Bavaria], on local reaction to Italy's conquest of Abyssinia; notes by [Edward] Llewellyn Woodward on Hitler's philosophy, and the German idea of the militant nation state; extract from a note by Sir Charles Grant Robertson on Hitler's ideas; memorandum on relations between Germany and Austria; copies of correspondence by WSC and Violet Pearman [Secretary to WSC].The majority of material in this file dates to 1936.